The Cherry Bowl

I went to The Cherry Bowl the other night for their 25 cent bowling. Pop is 25 cents, Beer 50, and hotdogs and tacos are 25. Sounds like a good deal right? Believe me, it’s not cheaper than any other bowling because they charge a «cover». The hotdogs are boiled and the whole operation looked rather unsanitary.
The bowling was the same as any other. The balls are ok, the shoes are average. The setup was not as good as I’d like. There is no table in the middle.
It’s just kind of average.

Lots of parking. Pin reset button needed several pushes during out game. Had a nice 1.5 hour-​long special with shoes included that kept the price down. Lots of serious bowlers– kind of intmidating for us amateurs.

I brought the entire family here on Saturday for a little family fun time. We all had a lot of fun. My youngest had never bowled before and they where nice enough to put up the bumpers for him so he could get the ball all the way down the lane. That’s not to say that my wife didn’t benefit from the bumpers as well. If it wasn’t for them, she probably wouldn’t have scored over a 20.
I hadn’t been bowling in over 15 years, so I was rusty as all get out.
The staff was very nice and helpful… as well as understanding because we really had no idea what we were doing and had a lot of questions. The place was clean and it was busy. There were a couple of birthday parties going on while we where there.
In the end we had a lot of fun and plan on going back for more family fun time.

We were at the Cherry Bowl this past Saturday Night for a benefit– Moonlight Bowling for the Rockford Pipe Band (bagpipers).
Plenty of parking, clean, no problem getting shoes in this packed house. A few problems with the electronic scoring, but not enough to prohibit us from having a fun time. If you are looking for a day or night of bowling fun in Rockford, I would recommend the Cherry Bowl.